Barbara B. Harrell
@bbharrell.bsky.social
Organic gardener, nature lover, habitat restorer, night protector, cook, piano player, family historian, retired Ob-Gyn MD, proud mom and grandma, and a lot of other stuff
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Here's a little series from our back slope habitat restoration, begun Aug 2017 (71 native plant species):
1) Jun 2018 blackberries cleared; deer candy anchor plants caged; 6' deer fence
2) Apr 2019 8' fence + rabbit mesh; gate; huckleberry shades
3) Jun 2022 fence & shades gone
4) Oct 2024
1) Jun 2018 blackberries cleared; deer candy anchor plants caged; 6' deer fence
2) Apr 2019 8' fence + rabbit mesh; gate; huckleberry shades
3) Jun 2022 fence & shades gone
4) Oct 2024
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POLLING CALL CENTER: "Now I'm going to read you some conspiracy theo— …"
MAGA RESPONDENT: "I don't need to hear them, they're all true."
MAGA RESPONDENT: "I don't need to hear them, they're all true."
December 5, 2025 at 1:05 PM
POLLING CALL CENTER: "Now I'm going to read you some conspiracy theo— …"
MAGA RESPONDENT: "I don't need to hear them, they're all true."
MAGA RESPONDENT: "I don't need to hear them, they're all true."
"People just can't believe it. They don't know what they're missing." Even the space reporter for the New York Times.
#darksky #lightpollution #bringbackthenight
Gift article www.nytimes.com/2025/12/02/i...
#darksky #lightpollution #bringbackthenight
Gift article www.nytimes.com/2025/12/02/i...
A Dark Sky Paints the Stars in a New Light
www.nytimes.com
December 3, 2025 at 2:23 PM
"People just can't believe it. They don't know what they're missing." Even the space reporter for the New York Times.
#darksky #lightpollution #bringbackthenight
Gift article www.nytimes.com/2025/12/02/i...
#darksky #lightpollution #bringbackthenight
Gift article www.nytimes.com/2025/12/02/i...
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It's great that reporting on the double tap has spotlighted the abject criminality of this Administration.
But don't forget: Venezuela is not waging war on America or Americans, and the men killed were not combatants.
The first strike was every bit as illegal as the second.
But don't forget: Venezuela is not waging war on America or Americans, and the men killed were not combatants.
The first strike was every bit as illegal as the second.
December 2, 2025 at 2:26 PM
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Last time I put up this train set I don’t think he was alive yet.
December 1, 2025 at 5:22 AM
Last time I put up this train set I don’t think he was alive yet.
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If you care for wildlife -
Do not book with Marriott hotels.
They built a luxury hotel in Masai Mara National Park on a known migration corridor and it is now blocking the path of migrating wildlife. The videos online are so distressing.
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/24/t...
Do not book with Marriott hotels.
They built a luxury hotel in Masai Mara National Park on a known migration corridor and it is now blocking the path of migrating wildlife. The videos online are so distressing.
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/24/t...
Is a New $3,500-a-Night Safari Camp Blocking a Wildlife Corridor?
www.nytimes.com
November 26, 2025 at 9:09 AM
If you care for wildlife -
Do not book with Marriott hotels.
They built a luxury hotel in Masai Mara National Park on a known migration corridor and it is now blocking the path of migrating wildlife. The videos online are so distressing.
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/24/t...
Do not book with Marriott hotels.
They built a luxury hotel in Masai Mara National Park on a known migration corridor and it is now blocking the path of migrating wildlife. The videos online are so distressing.
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/24/t...
"Whales may possess a communication system more intricate than our own, one that possibly predates human language by tens of millions of years." And AI has helped scientists figure this out. #nature #whales #wildlife #oceans
Gift www.nytimes.com/2025/11/23/o...
Gift www.nytimes.com/2025/11/23/o...
Opinion | I’m a Marine Biologist. This Is How I Talk to Whales.
www.nytimes.com
November 23, 2025 at 4:00 PM
"Whales may possess a communication system more intricate than our own, one that possibly predates human language by tens of millions of years." And AI has helped scientists figure this out. #nature #whales #wildlife #oceans
Gift www.nytimes.com/2025/11/23/o...
Gift www.nytimes.com/2025/11/23/o...
Great piece by @billmckibben.bsky.social today.
"We have watched over the years as rightwing evangelical churches turned the Jesus we grew up with into exactly the opposite of who we understood him to be."
#christianity #evangelical #Jesus #bible
www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...
"We have watched over the years as rightwing evangelical churches turned the Jesus we grew up with into exactly the opposite of who we understood him to be."
#christianity #evangelical #Jesus #bible
www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...
They’re doing to America what they did to Christianity | Bill McKibben
Trump’s wrecking-ball approach to America has a precedent: the evangelical perversion of Jesus’s message of radical love to one of hate and aggression
www.theguardian.com
November 23, 2025 at 2:38 PM
Great piece by @billmckibben.bsky.social today.
"We have watched over the years as rightwing evangelical churches turned the Jesus we grew up with into exactly the opposite of who we understood him to be."
#christianity #evangelical #Jesus #bible
www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...
"We have watched over the years as rightwing evangelical churches turned the Jesus we grew up with into exactly the opposite of who we understood him to be."
#christianity #evangelical #Jesus #bible
www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...
I wish we could return to the era when #Halloween waited until October and #Christmas waited until after #Thanksgiving. In my parents' day the tree went up on Christmas Eve and remained until #Epiphany (Jan 6). All these ads and holiday displays make me sick of it all by Christmas! #toxiccapitalism
November 20, 2025 at 3:13 PM
I wish we could return to the era when #Halloween waited until October and #Christmas waited until after #Thanksgiving. In my parents' day the tree went up on Christmas Eve and remained until #Epiphany (Jan 6). All these ads and holiday displays make me sick of it all by Christmas! #toxiccapitalism
Lettuce in our garden is still outgrowing bugs and slugs despite the ideal slug weather, but must be floated in water before eating. (Slug poop.) Surprised to find a few coneflowers (Echinacea purpurea) still blooming inside the fence. Dry heads already being devoured by birds, earlier than usual. 🌱
November 20, 2025 at 2:48 PM
Lettuce in our garden is still outgrowing bugs and slugs despite the ideal slug weather, but must be floated in water before eating. (Slug poop.) Surprised to find a few coneflowers (Echinacea purpurea) still blooming inside the fence. Dry heads already being devoured by birds, earlier than usual. 🌱
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I feel like I’m taking crazy pills. There’s no vote required if he wants to release them!
The only reason the house was voting was because he refused.
This is an obviously cynical ploy and major news outlets are running whole pieces without pointing this out. He could release them tonight.
The only reason the house was voting was because he refused.
This is an obviously cynical ploy and major news outlets are running whole pieces without pointing this out. He could release them tonight.
If he has nothing to hide he doesn’t need a House vote. He can just release everything.
Trump now says House Republicans should vote to release the Epstein files “because we have nothing to hide”
November 17, 2025 at 4:38 AM
I feel like I’m taking crazy pills. There’s no vote required if he wants to release them!
The only reason the house was voting was because he refused.
This is an obviously cynical ploy and major news outlets are running whole pieces without pointing this out. He could release them tonight.
The only reason the house was voting was because he refused.
This is an obviously cynical ploy and major news outlets are running whole pieces without pointing this out. He could release them tonight.
8 years on, and I'm still relieved by the #nature we see from our bedroom here in the middle of #Bellingham, compared to the view from our last home in the middle of #Seattle. Did what I could to green things up there, but built is built, I guess. Crows were the only birds we could attract. #habitat
November 15, 2025 at 4:32 PM
8 years on, and I'm still relieved by the #nature we see from our bedroom here in the middle of #Bellingham, compared to the view from our last home in the middle of #Seattle. Did what I could to green things up there, but built is built, I guess. Crows were the only birds we could attract. #habitat
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Gosh, why and how could that be? Such an enigma!
November 14, 2025 at 11:57 PM
Gosh, why and how could that be? Such an enigma!
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November 14, 2025 at 8:33 PM
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This may be Trump's perfect social media post. A true work of art. He confirms:
✅He personally directs criminal investigations.
✅He is targeting opponents.
✅Epstein "records" exist and he knows the contents.
Bonus points for connecting it to investigation of his fondness for Putin.👀
✅He personally directs criminal investigations.
✅He is targeting opponents.
✅Epstein "records" exist and he knows the contents.
Bonus points for connecting it to investigation of his fondness for Putin.👀
November 14, 2025 at 4:25 PM
This may be Trump's perfect social media post. A true work of art. He confirms:
✅He personally directs criminal investigations.
✅He is targeting opponents.
✅Epstein "records" exist and he knows the contents.
Bonus points for connecting it to investigation of his fondness for Putin.👀
✅He personally directs criminal investigations.
✅He is targeting opponents.
✅Epstein "records" exist and he knows the contents.
Bonus points for connecting it to investigation of his fondness for Putin.👀
Our loaded flowering crabapple (malus 'Adirondack') today. Planted as a small sapling in 2019, and selected because #birds like its fruit. (Not all crabapples are palatable to birds. These need to be sweetened by a hard freeze.) Robins cleaned them off in Jan '24, but nobody ate them in '25. 🌱
November 14, 2025 at 8:51 PM
Our loaded flowering crabapple (malus 'Adirondack') today. Planted as a small sapling in 2019, and selected because #birds like its fruit. (Not all crabapples are palatable to birds. These need to be sweetened by a hard freeze.) Robins cleaned them off in Jan '24, but nobody ate them in '25. 🌱
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Did you know corals time their spawning perfectly with a particular moon phase?
They wait for a few days after a full moon, in the dark of the night before spawning.
Light pollution can have huge consequences for our coral reefs, and with coastal artificial light increasing, it’s a serious issue
They wait for a few days after a full moon, in the dark of the night before spawning.
Light pollution can have huge consequences for our coral reefs, and with coastal artificial light increasing, it’s a serious issue
The Great Barrier Reef is spawning. 🪸 ✨
A phenomenon Sir David Attenborough once described as “one of the greatest of all natural spectacles,” the annual event is a dazzling display presenting hope for bigger, stronger coral reefs. 💙
Here's what spawning looks like👇
A phenomenon Sir David Attenborough once described as “one of the greatest of all natural spectacles,” the annual event is a dazzling display presenting hope for bigger, stronger coral reefs. 💙
Here's what spawning looks like👇
November 13, 2025 at 5:16 PM
Did you know corals time their spawning perfectly with a particular moon phase?
They wait for a few days after a full moon, in the dark of the night before spawning.
Light pollution can have huge consequences for our coral reefs, and with coastal artificial light increasing, it’s a serious issue
They wait for a few days after a full moon, in the dark of the night before spawning.
Light pollution can have huge consequences for our coral reefs, and with coastal artificial light increasing, it’s a serious issue
Did you know corals time their spawning perfectly with a particular moon phase?
They wait for a few days after a full moon, in the dark of the night before spawning.
Light pollution can have huge consequences for our coral reefs, and with coastal artificial light increasing, it’s a serious issue
They wait for a few days after a full moon, in the dark of the night before spawning.
Light pollution can have huge consequences for our coral reefs, and with coastal artificial light increasing, it’s a serious issue
The Great Barrier Reef is spawning. 🪸 ✨
A phenomenon Sir David Attenborough once described as “one of the greatest of all natural spectacles,” the annual event is a dazzling display presenting hope for bigger, stronger coral reefs. 💙
Here's what spawning looks like👇
A phenomenon Sir David Attenborough once described as “one of the greatest of all natural spectacles,” the annual event is a dazzling display presenting hope for bigger, stronger coral reefs. 💙
Here's what spawning looks like👇
November 14, 2025 at 5:01 PM
Dreary if badly needed November rain has set in here in the #PacificNorthwest. It has its charms, but does kinda squelch hiking and gardening (for me, anyhow). Here's a reminder that summer is just around the corner😊 🌱 #wildlife #habitat #gardening
November 14, 2025 at 3:32 PM
Dreary if badly needed November rain has set in here in the #PacificNorthwest. It has its charms, but does kinda squelch hiking and gardening (for me, anyhow). Here's a reminder that summer is just around the corner😊 🌱 #wildlife #habitat #gardening
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November 6, 2025 at 11:17 PM
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Elon Musk’s new pay package would feed all forty million Americans on SNAP for the next ten years. He wouldn’t notice the difference but the country would.
November 8, 2025 at 12:15 AM
Elon Musk’s new pay package would feed all forty million Americans on SNAP for the next ten years. He wouldn’t notice the difference but the country would.